boys:
2.9k births since 1881
#2355 (49th percentile)
overall:
2.9k births since 1881
#5060 (35th percentile)
The name Gerrit is the #5,060 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 2,853 recorded births since 1881. This represents the 34.6% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 34.6% of all names). For boys, it ranks #2,355 (48.6% percentile) for all time with 2,853 births since 1881.
Gerrit first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1881 (first recorded for boys in 1881). Birth data for Gerrit is available in 120 out of the 143 years between 1881 and 2023. The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
For boys, Gerrit reached its peak popularity in 1916, achieving the 8.8% percentile (ranked #458) with 53 births per million. The name was most common in 1881, with 55 births per million (ranked 0.5% percentile). Since reaching a high point around 2015, the popularity of this name for boys has been declining. Currently, Gerrit ranks #904 for boys (0.8% percentile) with 7 births per million, which is 11.8% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Gerrit".
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Our model has identified 3 different pronunciations for the name Gerrit. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 59.5% confident that Gerrit is pronounced as GEH-riht, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is JEH-riht, at 33.3% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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